The FastDay Forum

I'm fasting today, too. Went clothes shopping yesterday and that was very depressing! So I'm going to do a better job of eating healthy and cut back on the wine and cheese .

I'm in today. I have been so busy at work I didn't have time to eat much so that was easy but dinner was part triumph and part disappointment. I made a sauce for some hake with 3 spring onions, the juice of half a lime and 3 tsp of soy sauce which was fantastic but I tried to make a low cal cheese sauce for my veggies which didn't work at all and ate up far more calories than I wanted it to. I'm still having a mini milk lolly to cheer myself up later though, love the 30cal indulgence

I am signing off. It is 9.40 and I am going to bed. My 2nd fast day done. I ate nothing til dinner today. I am going to try the 36 hour on Monday as I am getting through this much better than I thought I would.

NIght night and I hope everyone had a very successful Fasting Thursday

My fasting day is still going on...just mid day here. I'm keeping it well under 500 and will just enjoy some of the hunger signals "it's only 1 day!"
Have been reading about the Dinka tribe which makes me again realize how inundated the western world is with mostly junk food and far too much of it. How many people around me have no conception of what cooking a whole grain is like...
Have been reading Pollen's new book too. Quite interesting...taking the reader through the experience of the 4 elements translated into preparing archetypal foods. (I just won't read any more of that on a fasting day, however.)

My husband and I have nearly reached the end of our fasting day. It has gone well for me - I don't count calories but think I am likely to be well inside my 500 allowance. He has probably gone sligtly over his 600 but we don't stress too much about things like that and we are still both losing weight. So a few days to eat 'normally' before our next fast on Monday. Our weekend starts here!

My fasting day today was one of hardiest. So cold and hungry I tried hot drinks,hot bath...just need some sunshine.

The sun is setting on this fasting day... it has been a good one! So far this is my 7th week on this diet, and I'm looking out at a long list of weeks, filling several calendars to make it to my goals. So I'm here for a while, doing this twice a week, as directed by the BBC program. I'm not sure about weight lost, as I've yet to get a scale, but I feel a wee bit lighter and it's getting slightly easier.

Here's to the long road ahead!

My fasting day is done too. This was #24 for me, it's been approximately 10 weeks but I had just a few weeks where I didn't get one or both fasts in. I woke up this morning and was tired and hungry and thought "this is going to be a long day." It turned out to be not too bad. Got home, made a mahi filet and had a lettuce/tomato/cucumber salad with fat free ranch, and a slice of cinnamon bread. About 2 hours later my son had 1 slice of pizza left he didn't want to finish and even though I knew I shouldn't eat it I did. Then promptly went to my fitness pal to log the cals and was pleasantly surprised I was still under 500.